In Rust, we can simply implement the Deref trait on a type and have that type behave according to the deref method's definition, when being dereferenced.
I wonder, is there any other language having such a capability?
See here for more info on the Deref trait.
Looks like you can overload the dereference operator in CPP:
also, when using the method call syntax, C++ arrow (->) operator is automatically chased until a real pointer type is reached, (similar to but not the same as auto deref coercion in rust), which is the mechanism supporting C++ smart pointers.
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